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Title: Made my own williams multigame CP (with a little customisation)
Post by: subzero1970 on September 30, 2013, 06:16:56 am
hi all, first post here and i thought i'd share this control panel i made on saturday, this was my 2nd attempt, my first attempt was based on guesswork and most of the buttons were in the wrong places, so i got a CPO printed, used that as my template and got to work!

(http://subzero.ziphoid.com/1a.jpg)

(http://subzero.ziphoid.com/2a.jpg)

(http://subzero.ziphoid.com/3a.jpg)

(http://subzero.ziphoid.com/4a.jpg)

(http://subzero.ziphoid.com/5a.jpg)

(http://subzero.ziphoid.com/6.jpg)

(http://subzero.ziphoid.com/7.jpg)

(http://subzero.ziphoid.com/8.jpg)

(http://subzero.ziphoid.com/9.jpg)

(http://subzero.ziphoid.com/10.jpg)

(http://subzero.ziphoid.com/11.jpg)

Im pretty happy with how it came out, considering its only my 2nd ever attempt!
Title: Re: Made my own williams multigame CP (with a little customisation)
Post by: Minwah on September 30, 2013, 10:06:12 am
Looks good!
Title: Re: Made my own williams multigame CP (with a little customisation)
Post by: subzero1970 on September 30, 2013, 01:02:35 pm
thanks - all the buttons except the start buttons are gold leaf, and the sticks are sanwas, hard to believe they are microswitches as i can hardly hear em!
Title: Re: Made my own williams multigame CP (with a little customisation)
Post by: paigeoliver on September 30, 2013, 02:27:27 pm
Robotron NEEDS a round joystick movement pattern if you want any hope of being good at it. Looks like those are square or octagonal. I thought I could get away with a square pattern on my multiwilliams and I replaced them within 2 days.
Title: Re: Made my own williams multigame CP (with a little customisation)
Post by: subzero1970 on September 30, 2013, 03:17:35 pm
Robotron NEEDS a round joystick movement pattern if you want any hope of being good at it. Looks like those are square or octagonal. I thought I could get away with a square pattern on my multiwilliams and I replaced them within 2 days.

seems to work fine for robotron, and besides im not sure what you mean...
Title: Re: Made my own williams multigame CP (with a little customisation)
Post by: paigeoliver on September 30, 2013, 03:27:30 pm
Looking at the underside of your panel your restriction plate doesn't have a circular movement pattern. If you aren't a Robotron pro then it really won't matter. If you are then anything other than a circular movement pattern on the stick will make the game quite unenjoyable.

What game is run, jump and run for? Track and Field?

Robotron NEEDS a round joystick movement pattern if you want any hope of being good at it. Looks like those are square or octagonal. I thought I could get away with a square pattern on my multiwilliams and I replaced them within 2 days.

seems to work fine for robotron, and besides im not sure what you mean...
Title: Re: Made my own williams multigame CP (with a little customisation)
Post by: UFO on September 30, 2013, 03:34:10 pm
I like it, and the idea.  :applaud:

Not sure if 'Reverse' is a little too far away to be flicked by the thumb though....
Title: Re: Made my own williams multigame CP (with a little customisation)
Post by: subzero1970 on September 30, 2013, 04:05:12 pm
I like it, and the idea.  :applaud:

Not sure if 'Reverse' is a little too far away to be flicked by the thumb though....

reverse fits my thumb just fine :)  on my V1 it was further away and lower down too!!!

yeh the 3 lower buttons are for TnF and HS (and other regular 3 button games)

if you look at the attached file, that was my V1 CP - oh my god!! it was all guess work with a horrible white marble finish!

Sz
Title: Re: Made my own williams multigame CP (with a little customisation)
Post by: UFO on September 30, 2013, 04:25:04 pm
I like it, and the idea.  :applaud:

Not sure if 'Reverse' is a little too far away to be flicked by the thumb though....

reverse fits my thumb just fine :)  on my V1 it was further away and lower down too!!!

yeh the 3 lower buttons are for TnF and HS (and other regular 3 button games)

if you look at the attached file, that was my V1 CP - oh my god!! it was all guess work with a horrible white marble finish!

Sz

Good stuff.

Its a great concept, and you executed it really well ... :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:
Title: Re: Made my own williams multigame CP (with a little customisation)
Post by: paigeoliver on September 30, 2013, 08:39:16 pm
I have my reverse in the same place. It works fine as long as you haven't trained yourself with a couple decades of Stargate and Defender on the original panels.

One minor quibble though is the fact that you become worthless on a real Defender layout once you train yourself to use the Multiwilliams one.